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Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald papers, 1970-2021
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Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald papers, 1970-2021Creator/Contributor:
Fitzgerald, Romaine "Chip", creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Mahmud, Nasreen, correspondent.Abstract:
The bulk of the collection consists of Fitzgerald's letters to Nasreen Mahmud, a longtime supporter and advocate for his freedom.
Other correspondents include Bruce Richard, Angela Cayafas, Merritt College students, and Ann Garrison. There are a few letters
to Ericka Huggins. Other items include Fitzgerald's unfinished memoir, "Letters from the Hole," and materials regarding efforts
to secure his parole. Personalia includes a program from his homecoming celebration. Subjects of the ephemera, newsletters
and pamphlets, news clippings, and articles include the Black Panther Party, Black nationalism, international politics, and
political prisoners. Books belonging to Fitzgerald reflected his interests in anarchist philosophy, political prisoners, and
international and domestic revolutionary struggles (books date from 1956-2020). There is also a typewriter that Fitzgerald
used in prison.
Date:
1970 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caAfrican American prisoners
Political prisoners -- United States
Prisonniers noirs américains
Prisonniers politiques -- États-Unis
Political prisoners
African American prisoners
United States
Black Panther Party.
Black Panther Party
Fitzgerald, Romaine "Chip" -- Archives
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COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Purchase from William A. Fitzgerald; 2021.
Gift of Nasreen Mahmud 2021-2022.
Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald was born in 1949. He was a parent, grandparent, uncle, cousin, political organizer and mentor. As
a young man, Fitzgerald joined the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party. He was imprisoned in 1969 along with several
other Panthers after defending themselves following an altercation with a California Highway Patrol Officer during a traffic
stop. Despite being eligible for parole as early as 1976, he served more than 51 years. This made him one of the longest-held
political prisoners in the United States, and the longest-incarcerated member of the Black Panther Party. Chip Fitzgerald
was 71 when he joined the ancestors in 2021.
Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald papers, BANC MSS 2021/164, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
personal correspondence.Personal correspondence
Archives
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Physical Description:
print
6 (4 1
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.